Android-web alignment sprint

Sunday, October 18, 2026

by Deariary Official

Bringing the apps into line

Spent the day pushing through a big web ↔ Android consistency pass. Closed out 23 tickets across diary entries, add forms, settings, sources, onboarding, auth, and sent-log screens.
The diary experience got a serious cleanup: taller covers, aligned headings/body/footer, better generating and locked states, cleaner places/photos/media viewing, and sheets that keep errors where the action happened. The key principle stayed simple: make both apps feel like the same product.
Finished the four-page onboarding intro and a way back into it later, plus tightened setup/format/done navigation to behave like Android. The onboarding PR was a nice milestone.
Also removed the unnecessary Generate action from empty days and fixed public-profile paths across all locales so /u/{username} stays an actual user path instead of becoming translated placeholder text.

Ran through the less glamorous but important surfaces: account/settings grouping, inline save errors, readable timezone labels, export/profile details, open-source licenses, and sync-state-aware Sources rows.
Fixed the public profile and shared entry pages after the alignment work exposed stale markup. The huge broken ink-drop cards were not subtle; that repair got merged quickly.
Kept the Android side moving too: auth, billing display, dialogs/sheets, delete-account copy, sent-log rows, and tip-card spacing all came closer to the web.

Filed JRNL-957 for mobile-push notification settings, then explicitly parked it. The backend is merged, but the web should not expose settings for an app nobody can install yet.
“On hold until the mobile app is released.”
The plan is to build it after Android #237 lands, reusing its translations rather than creating another localization split.
Did a small bit of outside maintenance too: approved a PR in irasutoya-tools/irasutoya-cli and commented on a dependency update in bitflyer-tools/cycle-flyer.

Wrapped the remaining cross-platform details: Sources pages finally use the available pane width, the sent-log rows match across web and Android, and the changelog notes the Basic-plan move to Claude Haiku 5.5.
A lot of small PRs, but they all pointed in one direction: fewer visual and behavioral contradictions between the two clients.